$100 hamburger

plural $100 hamburgers · alternative hundred-dollar hamburger

1. slangaeronauticsA general aviation flight that involves flying a short distance, eating a meal, and flying back.

   It’s called hunting the $100 hamburger — “$100” referring to the cost of fuel — sort of the aeronautical equivalent of lazy Sunday drives in which the destination isn’t as important as the pleasure of getting away.

   2007 October 26, Matthew Preusch, “Cleared for Lunching: The $100 Hamburger”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hamburger.

   Daniel Boulud has a restaurant that serves a truffle and Kobe steak hamburger for $100 […] It's to make everything else on the menu look cheap by comparison. Someone sees a $100 hamburger on the menu, and they can look at a $50 steak and see it's a bargain.

   2010, William Poundstone, quoting Brandon O'Dell, Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 159